Category Archives: Life

History

Posted on April 9, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

In history, who’s ever won a war when we tally up the final score? For short times one side may rule but who does ‘victory really fool? The victors of the war today will turn back to dust anyway. So … Continue reading →

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Remembering

Posted on March 29, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

Remembering’s a funny thing, the joys and sorrow it can bring; the meaning coming from that thought brings happiness that can’t be bought. But then at times it brings back days when we’d have lived in other ways. But all-in-all … Continue reading →

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Pleasure and pain

Posted on March 27, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

Life, a place we’re doomed to live with all the pleasures it can give nestled in betwixt the pain, the feelings that drive us insane; at times each one will rule the day but we must live on anyway. Tomorrow, … Continue reading →

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Life’s Joys

Posted on March 4, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

“Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon.” Henry Thoreau. My mind is overwhelmed at times; Devastation – humanities crimes. It’s then I need to … Continue reading →

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Doing – Quick – Being – Slower

Posted on March 4, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

It never moves in still life; the constancy is there; this image is everything – still and stark and bare. I see it and I know this is where beauty lies; the beauty of stillness , where Doingness just dies. … Continue reading →

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Why?

Posted on March 4, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

Finding the eye of my own tornado; quietly watching how my tempests flow. Watching, feeling the turmoil of my day helps me seek out yet another way. It’s not the tempest but how I reply That answers the question when … Continue reading →

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My Tornado

Posted on March 4, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

The eye of the tornado, a place where I can stand to observe what’s around me; life’s shifting sand. Life is my tornado and it’s my choice to be swept up in the maelstrom or standing proud and free. To … Continue reading →

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Keep my powder dry

Posted on February 17, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

Well, I could keep my powder dry expecting the war to start, or I could spend my whole long life learning Sun Tzu’s art. Maybe I should curl up and die; a most ignoble ending or slave away in servitude … Continue reading →

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When We Stand Tall

Posted on February 17, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

Why are there times when we stand tall and face the world with ease but then there’s those when we run away or buckle at the knees? How can we have those days when we do nought but stand up … Continue reading →

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The Law

Posted on January 31, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

“But it’s the law” he bellowed “a line we must not cross” and his religious dedication left me at a loss. For many things are legal, but does that make them right? And if there are unjust laws, should we … Continue reading →

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Love

Posted on January 28, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

I need to learn to love a man, and that man is me ‘cos if I do not love him then how can he be free. I need to learn to walk upright accepting I am me and knowing that … Continue reading →

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My Last Request

Posted on January 26, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

There’s a lot of ways it could have gone, this life that I have led; I coulda been a movie star, I coulda just been dead. Instead I’ve simply fumbled on, as in the end we do And pinned my … Continue reading →

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Breaking Out

Posted on January 21, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

Breaking out and moving up; drinking from another cup. Whatever you call, it’s trip with many barriers you must rip. All the while against the flow; walls are built each way you go. And all the time you’ll always be … Continue reading →

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Chickens

Posted on January 15, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

This is an ode to the poor headless bird; a fowl often seen that never is heard. It’s as though there is one reason alone that this poor creature has ever grown. It’s here to feed us, this hapless chick; … Continue reading →

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Class

Posted on January 12, 2017 by a foolhardy florilegium

They ask “What does it all mean, this life that I now lead?” “What will I be remembered as; what is my life’s great deed?” It’s then I know they’re well of, the upper middle class, ‘cos poor folk don’t … Continue reading →

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